Saturday, 11 May 2013

Celebrity designer, Yomi Makun popularly known as Yomi Casual, tells Ademola Olonilua about his life and his brand

How did you get into fashion designing?
Professionally, I have been in the industry for about eight years.
Fashion is not something I really wanted to do. I am an artist. I do a
lot of paintings, drawings and the rest. It was all a mistake. It’s not
like I really planned it. When my sister was filling my JAMB form then,
she mistakenly wrote Fashion Designing instead of Fine and Applied Arts.
That was how I found myself in fashion in Auchi Polytechnic. It was not
easy at first because people did not appreciate fashion then. You could
not really tell your friends that you were studying fashion in school. I
used to find it difficult to tell my friends that I gained admission
into school and this is what I am studying. I sneaked in and sneaked
out. All they just knew was that I was in school, they did not know what
I was studying.Do you have any regrets?

While heading into a restaurant with his baby mama Kim K yesterday,
Kanye hit his head on a metal sign trying to avoid getting his photos
taken by the paparazzi. He then started screamed at the paps...

"Don’t take a muthaf-ckin’ photo man. Don’t
take a photo! Stop it! All of you muthaf-ckas stop it man!”

It was all captured on camera by TMZ. Check out the videos after the cut...
Kanye hits his head

After
winning fans and critics over with her resounding debut single “Dance
Floor” at the start of the year, up and coming UK-based Nigerian
Afro-Pop singer, songwriter and model SUSAN is back with a massive new remix of “Dance Floor” featuring UK Afrobeats star Mista Silva!

Still
keeping with the theme of 80’s Dance/Pop and heavy techno influences
from the original while fusing in some added Azonto and Afrobeats
flavour and stylings, the “Dance Floor (Remix)” sees both Susan and Mista Silva both in flying form as they dominate this thumping Plaerz-produced
musical backdrop - Susan, with her beautiful vocal dexterity filled
with exciting Pop sensibility and Mista Silva, with his infectious flow
and trademark vocal cadence…

With
the original single continuing to enjoy playlist success and heavy
rotation in several clubs across the country and on the likes of Rhythm FM, Top Radio and Naija FM,
this remix will be sure to slide right into that rotation in the clubs
and on your favourite radio stations while continuing to send SUSAN on
her upward trajectory in the Nigerian and Afrobeats music landscape.

Look out for a debut music video from SUSAN in the Summer but in the meantime, enjoy the “Dance Floor (Remix)” featuring Mista Silva below…

It
was funny when some bloggers posted a supposedly exclusive news few
days ago, claiming that VAST of bracket was diagnosed with HIV and was
receiving treatment in London, I have been able to confirm that this
tale at its best was all lies,

Vast did had a minor cancer
treatment earlier this year, but has since been healed of the disease,
since FEBRUARY, so guys safe the pity for another day!

Awww! Only a few celebrities get to receive surprisingly romantic
gestures/acts from their fans and that was exactly what Yvonne Nelson
got today!photoA fan surprised the Ghanian actress by sending a
beautiful flower bouquet all the way from Italy to Ghana. Yvonne was
super excited and had to tweet "OMG from italy....speechless"' See the
romantic flower below...

A woman was pulled alive Friday from the ruins of a garment factory
complex in Bangladesh more than 16 days after it collapsed and killed
over 1,000 people.

The miraculous rescue came shortly after
emergency officials announced that the woman called Reshmi had been
located under the rubble of the nine-storey Rana Plaza complex after
crying out for help.She was found sheltering in the ruins of a basement mosque.Rescuers cheered loudly as she was carried to an army ambulance, managing a faint smile at the crowds who had gathered.The
country’s fire service chief told AFP that the woman appeared to have
had access to water during her marathon ordeal trapped underneath the
wreckage of the nine-storey Rana Plaza complex, which had caved in on 24
April.“She has been located in a gap between a beam and a column.
Her name is Reshmi. She may have reserves of water or have drunk some of
the water that we’ve pumped into the building,” Ahmed Ali told AFP.One
of the rescuers said that the woman had cried out for help as recovery
teams sifted through the wreckage in the town of Savar on the outskirts
of the capital Dhaka.“As we were clearing rubble, we called out if anyone was alive,” the unnamed rescuer told a private TV channel.“Then we heard her saying ‘please save me, please save me’.”Another
rescuer said that the woman had had access to food supplies for the
first fortnight of her ordeal but had run out two days ago.“She said she has not eaten for the last two days. She said she has eaten some dried food like biscuits,” said the rescuer.

A man died in Lagos yesterday Friday 10th of May after he was crushed to death by a mast which fell off a 2-storey building.

The
man, a 52-year old roadside trader identified as Adeolu Adeleke had
reportedly gone to protect his wares from the heavy rain and winds but
was crushed by the mast as he made his way back to his shade.One
of the people who witnessed the incident and a very close friend of the
deceased said Adeleke, also known as Baba Ibeji, was warned not to
enter the rain because of the strong wind but he refused. “I told him to
forget about the goods since the wind was blowing strongly, but he said
he would hurry down there quickly not knowing that he will not return,”
he said.

In
a move that is set to change the way business and payments are made in
Nigeria, MasterCard has been signed up by the Nigerian government to
launch an Identity and electronic payment system under the recently deployed National Identity Management System (NIMS).

The dual purpose cards are designed to create a cashless society
where users will be encouraged to pay using their identity card. The
pilot scheme will target 13 million potential users from 16 years and
above in the first phase of the programme.